I've known for a long time that Trump is a bit of a smeghead, but if I had any doubts about it, this book smashes them into a million pieces. This book is an extremely well research book exploring how Trump basically failed miserably in his career at the White House, up to the point where one would wonder why he agreed to be interviewed. His deranged reaction to the 2020 election calling in favor of Biden was a highlight.

My only criticism is that there is little new here, but it is still a very good book and it is one that makes you worry about the future of America.

In THE DIVIDER, the husband and wife team of Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, chronicle Donald Trump’s four years as President in great detail.

I found this book to be well written and hard to put down but, it was so frightening, it kept me awake at night. This is another book that the people who really need to read it won’t but, if you’re on the fence about supporting the former President, it’s a must read.

4.5 stars. This is a detailed history of the four years of Trump and his administration, and I mean detailed. Seeing all these things listed and described in chronological order boggled my mind that we as a nation went through all of that mess. It is an amazing piece of journalism.

Reading it brought back to mind all the startling things that happened, this time with the added knowledge of people who had been there. They interviewed hundreds of people for this book, and I appreciate the work and time it must have taken for this. However, you can tell which people they interviewed who are trying to "rewrite" their own personal participation in this stain on our history.

Which leads me to my next thought. I've read a number of books, chronicling TFG's presidential years and what occurred during them, and throughout them all, I have wondered where were these people who surrounded TFG? They knew how unsuited he was for the presidency, how dangerous he truly was, and they didn't rise above their need for power to do what was right for the country. Yes, some of them tried to be the adults in the room, but in my mind, many failed their oaths to the Constitution.

Luckily, we have good books like this one, that keeps them from hiding in the shadows of what they did.

This is the MOST comprehensive book on Trump and his CABAL of enablers etc. Details and backgrounds of each individual (EVERYONE in full detail) from Pompous Pompeo to the variety of other characters. I think reading this, better to listen time wise would eliminate having to read all the other Trump books.

For all the chaos the drip, drip of norm-shattering headlines represented during Trump's four years in office, this book condenses into one eminently readable volume that almost feels like fiction. The biggest unanswered question that this book prompted for me was how much closer even the nation would have been to crisis after crisis had the "adults" in the administration not been in the room, even though many of them did not last long — and how to trade this off with the fact that most all of those same "adults" were power-hungry officials looking to capitalize in the moment, and that they stood by and supported other objectively bad/inhumane/borderline illegal policies only to draw an arbitrary line later on.

Trump's plans with Schedule F for the civil service and a more unapologetic approach enabled by yes-men staff has me ever more concerned about a potential second term, with no moderating factors at all. Hopefully this book does not require a sequel.

Thanks Jordan for visiting in DC and bringing me to a book talk on this!

Again, I’m stunned in the breadth, the sheer number of outrages that made up this Administration. I lived through it as an adult; it’s not like I was unaware. But to hear the recitation, one furious, ridiculous event after another, in the context of history, is breathtaking. I realize once and for all that he-who-I-will-not-name was indeed no secret genius, not a three dimensional chess master. Just a pathetic, angry, mentally ill, racist conman.

He made a regular habit of taking the word of homicidal autocrats and psychopathic, serial liars over his own intelligence agencies. Further, he has no grasp of the intent of the US Constitution and only a passing familiarity with the truth, preferring “alternative facts,” as if that were anything but fiction. He seems unable to utter anything by untruths, hyperbole and self pitying blather.

How his ascendancy was allowed to happen is shocking; that it continues its impact is intolerable. Divider? Hell, yes. America has become a dysfunctional nation, thanks to his narcissistic legacy.

Having everything collected in one tome is a bit overwhelming, as was living through it again. Recommended for the historical documentation, but not for your mental well-being.